June 4, 2014 3:14pm EDTJune 4, 2014 2:34pm EDTConfused about what's going on with Dan Marino in light of the concussion lawsuit? The Dolphins seem just as confused as they figure out how he can help the franchise most. SN's David Steele has the story.Dan Marino(AP Photo)

Marino’s stumble into and out of the most recent concussion lawsuit this week left him with the label of being a waffler, incapable of being decisive or committed. Yet that’s not even the worst outcome from the lawsuit debacle: The Hall of Fame quarterback and Miami Dolphins icon looks like he has no idea where he belongs in the NFL, and nobody else knows, either.

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That was illuminated by Miami Herald columnist Armando Salguero in a series of tweets Wednesday morning. Salguero laid out a scenario in which the Dolphins and Marino want to be in business together, but that neither knows what he could do or how he would fit in best.

For those more interested in football than litigation, Dan Marino and the Dolphins have so far been unable to figure out role with team.

Marino lost his CBS "NFL Today" job in February, so he doesn't have that tying him down anymore. If he was ever going to nail down a position in the only NFL organization he's ever known, now is the time.

The Dolphins could use guidance and a positive face after coming off as rudderless last season. But there's no sign that they want to revisit the aborted Marino promotion to head football operations in 2004, a job that lasted some three weeks before he quit. That was under different ownership — but current ownership looks like it doesn't have a full grasp of things, either.

Stephen Ross made a big show of making himself and everyone in the organization accountable after the bullying scandal last fall. Yet he ended up keeping coach Joe Philbin, and he stalled his own general manager search by making sure candidates know the owner still had control.

Meanwhile, his announcement of an advisory committee to clean up the internal conduct problems came and went without any apparent actual formation of, or action by, the group. Marino was named as part of that group. Yet his relationship with the Dolphins is still in limbo.

That reflects badly on the Dolphins — but when the public relations disaster of the concussion lawsuit is factored in, right now it reflects even worse on Marino.